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The stellar temperature scale from O5 to A0

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2015

D.S. Hayes
D.S. Hayes*
Affiliation:
Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, N.Y., U.S.A.

Abstract

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An absolute spectrophotometric calibration of Vega and eleven other standard stars was completed by the author in 1967. This calibration extends from 3200 to 10870 Å, and therefore gives a useful calibration of the Paschen discontinuity as well as the Balmer discontinuity, for which calibrations have been available for some time.

The measured values of the ratio of the size of the Paschen discontinuity to the size of the Balmer discontinuity have been compared with corresponding values predicted by model atmospheres. The comparison shows that LTE models satisfactorily predict the continuum in the wavelength range given above.

A stellar temperature scale has been determined by fitting the measured sizes of the Balmer discontinuity of 43 stars to blanketed model atmospheres. This temperature scale agrees very well with Morton's modified form of the Morton-Adams temperature scale for all except the latest B-stars, for which higher temperatures are predicted.

Type
Part I: Stellar Fluxes
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 36: Ultraviolet Stellar Spectra and Related Ground-Based Observations , 1970 , pp. 83 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © Reidel 1970 

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